VacationSelector

Interlaken or Manchester?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Manchester
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

InterlakenManchester
Beaches & swimming. Manchester leads by 28 points.28
InterlakenManchester
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1210
Coast distance713 km27 km
Water distance27 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 39 points.39
InterlakenManchester
Score2968
Restaurants within 2 km of centre118853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1735
Museums & heritage. Manchester leads by 19 points.19
InterlakenManchester
Score2342
Museums within 10 km523
Museums within 2 km of centre211
Share of museums within 2 km %4048
Unesco sites within 50 km22
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 58 points.58
InterlakenManchester
Score462
Drinking venues within 4 km421,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38792
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9077
Nightclubs within 4 km382
Nature & day trips. Manchester leads by 9 points.9
InterlakenManchester
Score2736
Protected land share 50 km %1917
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km5 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Manchester leads by 18 points.18
InterlakenManchester
Score1432
Tourist attractions within 2 km115
Park area within 2 km5 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 26 points.26
InterlakenManchester
Score2248
Notable places within 2 km1461
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manchester leads by 19 points.19
InterlakenManchester
Score3554
Price level global110.584.9
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Interlaken leads by 3 points.3
InterlakenManchester
Score5754
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm51 mm to 95 mm
Dry months30
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Interlaken
No sunshine record
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenManchester
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 50 m
€84-103
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 100 km
1 h 55 m
€352-493
2 stops
MAN · 15 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€188-233
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenManchester
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshEnglish
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation571 m38 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenManchester
City population6,123547,627
People per km²1,4244,737
Museums within 10 km328
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Distinct cuisines in the centre2263
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.